Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "asian-horror"

1. Godzilla (1954)

Not Rated | 96 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

American nuclear weapons testing results in the creation of a seemingly unstoppable dinosaur-like beast.

Director: Ishirô Honda | Stars: Takashi Shimura, Akihiko Hirata, Akira Takarada, Momoko Kôchi

Votes: 39,808 | Gross: $2.42M

2. The Host (2006)

R | 120 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi

A monster emerges from Seoul's Han River and begins attacking people. One victim's loving family does what it can to rescue her from its clutches.

Director: Bong Joon Ho | Stars: Song Kang-ho, Byun Hee-Bong, Park Hae-il, Bae Doona

Votes: 132,867 | Gross: $2.20M

3. The Medium (2021)

Not Rated | 130 min | Horror

A horrifying story of a shaman's inheritance in the Isan region of Thailand. What could be possessing a family member might not be the Goddess they make it out to be.

Director: Banjong Pisanthanakun | Stars: Narilya Gulmongkolpech, Sawanee Utoomma, Sirani Yankittikan, Yasaka Chaisorn

Votes: 13,170

4. Ringu (1998)

Not Rated | 96 min | Horror, Mystery

A reporter and her ex-husband investigate a cursed video tape that is rumored to kill the viewer seven days after watching it.

Director: Hideo Nakata | Stars: Nanako Matsushima, Miki Nakatani, Yûko Takeuchi, Hitomi Satô

Votes: 77,573

5. House (1977)

Not Rated | 88 min | Comedy, Horror

A schoolgirl and six of her classmates travel to her aunt's country home, which turns out to be haunted.

Director: Nobuhiko Ôbayashi | Stars: Kimiko Ikegami, Miki Jinbo, Kumiko Ôba, Ai Matsubara

Votes: 33,781

6. A Tale of Two Sisters (2003)

R | 114 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

After being institutionalized in a mental hospital, Su-mi reunites with her sister, Su-yeon, and they return to live at their country home. But strange events plague the house, leading to surprising revelations and a shocking conclusion.

Director: Jee-woon Kim | Stars: Lim Soo-jung, Yum Jung-ah, Kim Kap-su, Moon Geun-young

Votes: 68,314

7. Pulse (2001)

R | 119 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi

Two groups of people discover evidence that suggests spirits may be trying to invade the human world through the Internet.

Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Stars: Haruhiko Katô, Kumiko Asô, Koyuki, Kurume Arisaka

Votes: 25,644 | Gross: $0.05M

8. Sleep (I) (2023)

95 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery

A young, expectant wife must figure out how to stop her husband's nightmarish sleepwalking habits before he harms himself or his family.

Director: Jason Yu | Stars: Kim Gook Hee, Yoon Kyung-ho, Lee Sun-kyun, Jung Yu-mi

Votes: 2,124

9. Ju-on: The Grudge (2002)

R | 92 min | Horror

A mysterious and vengeful spirit marks and pursues anybody who dares enter the house in which it resides.

Director: Takashi Shimizu | Stars: Megumi Okina, Misaki Itô, Misa Uehara, Yui Ichikawa

Votes: 48,125 | Gross: $0.33M

10. Tag (2015)

85 min | Action, Drama, Fantasy

A girl's life cascades into chaos as everyone around her suffers a gruesome fate while she becomes less certain of who she is and her once-once normal.

Director: Sion Sono | Stars: Reina Triendl, Mariko Shinoda, Erina Mano, Yuki Sakurai

Votes: 8,107

11. Satan's Slaves (2017)

Not Rated | 107 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

After dying from a strange illness that she suffered for 3 years, a mother returns home to pick up her children.

Director: Joko Anwar | Stars: Tara Basro, Bront Palarae, Dimas Aditya, Endy Arfian

Votes: 11,272

12. Home for Rent (2023)

124 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Inspired by terrifying true events. The new tenants of a house start terrorizing the owners of the place they rent, looking for their next prey to sacrifice.

Director: Sophon Sakdaphisit | Stars: Nittha Jirayungyurn, Sukollawat Kanarot, Thanyaphat Mayuraleela, Penpak Sirikul

Votes: 3,499

13. Rape Zombie: Lust of the Dead (2012)

Not Rated | 73 min | Horror

A contagion turns men into violent, sexually aggressive zombies worldwide. Surviving women must fight for survival by finding a way to kill the infected men, possibly humanity's only hope.

Director: Naoyuki Tomomatsu | Stars: Rina Aikawa, Yui Aikawa, Kazuyoshi Akishima, Asami

Votes: 1,242

14. Dark Water (2002)

PG-13 | 101 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

A mother and her 6-year-old daughter move into a creepy apartment whose every surface is permeated by water.

Director: Hideo Nakata | Stars: Hitomi Kuroki, Rio Kanno, Mirei Oguchi, Asami Mizukawa

Votes: 34,960

15. Guinea Pig 2: Flower of Flesh and Blood (1985 Video)

42 min | Short, Horror

Late at night, a woman is kidnapped by an unknown assailant and taken back to his blood-spattered dungeon, where he turns her into a "flower of blood and flesh" through a series of dismemberment and evisceration.

Director: Hideshi Hino | Stars: Hiroshi Tamura, Kirara Yûgao, Anja Blagojevic

Votes: 4,492

16. One Missed Call (2003)

R | 112 min | Horror, Mystery

People mysteriously start receiving voicemail messages from their future selves, foretelling their deaths.

Director: Takashi Miike | Stars: Kô Shibasaki, Shin'ichi Tsutsumi, Kazue Fukiishi, Anna Nagata

Votes: 19,331

17. Three... Extremes (2004)

R | 125 min | Horror

An Asian cross-cultural trilogy of horror films from accomplished indie directors.

Directors: Fruit Chan, Park Chan-wook, Takashi Miike | Stars: Bai Ling, Lee Byung-hun, Kyoko Hasegawa, Pauline Lau

Votes: 20,882 | Gross: $0.08M

18. The Eye (2002)

R | 99 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery

A blind girl gets a cornea transplant so that she will be able to see again. She gets more than she bargained for upon realizing she can also see ghosts.

Directors: Danny Pang, Oxide Chun Pang | Stars: Angelica Lee, Chutcha Rujinanon, Lawrence Chou, Jinda Duangtoy

Votes: 30,087 | Gross: $0.51M

19. Satan's Slaves 2: Communion (2022)

119 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

When the heavy storm hits, it wasn't the storm that a family should fear but the people and non-human entities who are out for them.

Director: Joko Anwar | Stars: Tara Basro, Endy Arfian, Nasar Annuz, Bront Palarae

Votes: 3,758

20. Ju-on: The Curse (2000 Video)

TV-PG | 70 min | Horror, Mystery

A teacher visits the house of one of his students after the boy goes missing, only to have a horrifying excuse for his absence from school.

Director: Takashi Shimizu | Stars: Yûrei Yanagi, Yue, Ryôta Koyama, Hitomi Miwa

Votes: 8,992

21. The Happiness of the Katakuris (2001)

R | 113 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror

A family moves to the country to run a rustic mountain inn when, to their horror, the customers begin befalling sudden and unlikely fates.

Director: Takashi Miike | Stars: Kenji Sawada, Keiko Matsuzaka, Shinji Takeda, Naomi Nishida

Votes: 10,034

22. Mai-chan no nichijô (2014)

55 min | Horror

A sadistic place in a remote location put out a help wanted ad luring young teen girls to come work as a live in maid only to control them for Sexual abuse, Torture, Murder and Cannibalism.

Director: Sade Satô | Stars: Miyako Akane, An Koshi, Shôgo Maruyama, Chiyoko Nameless

Votes: 260

23. As the Gods Will (2014)

TV-MA | 117 min | Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi

A group of high school students are forced to play a game of death without knowing who, why or how.

Director: Takashi Miike | Stars: Shôta Sometani, Nijirô Murakami, Ryunosuke Kamiki, Nao Ômori

Votes: 8,077

24. Ju-On: The Grudge 2 (2003)

R | 92 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

As their curse spreads on, the ghosts find their chance to live once again through the pregnancy of a cursed woman.

Director: Takashi Shimizu | Stars: Noriko Sakai, Chiharu Niiyama, Kei Horie, Yui Ichikawa

Votes: 10,893

25. Liverleaf (2018)

Not Rated | 114 min | Horror

As if bullied by her classmates everyday is not enough, Nozaki finds her house burnt to the ground and her parents dead. Knowing that the fire is not an accident, she sneaks off to punish those responsible one by one.

Director: Eisuke Naitô | Stars: Anna Yamada, Hiroya Shimizu, Rinka Ôtani, Rena Ôtsuka

Votes: 1,186

26. Kuchisake-onna (2007)

Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

A suburban town in Japan is the victim of what is supposedly just an urban legend, a woman's spirit with a horribly disfigured face who is intent on kidnapping children for unknown reasons.

Director: Kôji Shiraishi | Stars: Eriko Satô, Haruhiko Katô, Chiharu Kawai, Rie Kuwana

Votes: 3,050

27. The Closet (2020)

97 min | Horror, Mystery

After Sang-Won's daughter Yi-Na goes missing in their new home, a mysterious man approaches him and tells him to look for her in the closet.

Director: Kwang-bin Kim | Stars: Ha Jung-woo, Yool Heo, Kim Nam-gil, Kim Si-Ah

Votes: 2,527

28. Howling Village (2019)

108 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

After her brother goes missing, a young psychologist visits an infamous haunted and cursed location known as 'Howling Village' to investigate his disappearance and uncover her family's dark history.

Director: Takashi Shimizu | Stars: Ayaka Miyoshi, Ryôta Bandô, Tsuyoshi Furukawa, Renji Ishibashi

Votes: 1,368

29. Guinea Pig 5: Mermaid in the Manhole (1988 Video)

63 min | Horror

An artist rescues a mermaid in a sewer who develops bleeding sores all over her body, paints a portrait with her oozes and eventually disjoints her.

Director: Hideshi Hino | Stars: Shigeru Saiki, Mari Somei, Masami Hisamoto, Gô Rijû

Votes: 2,513

30. Rape Zombie: Lust of the Dead 2 (2013)

Not Rated | 67 min | Horror

After a nuclear attack, a strange virus has turned 90% of the male population of the world into lust-filled zombies. However, in Akihabara, Japan, some males have been found who are uninfected.

Director: Naoyuki Tomomatsu | Stars: Hayato Abe, Yui Aikawa, Maki Aoyama, Asami

Votes: 549

31. Rape Zombie: Lust of the Dead 3 (2013)

Not Rated | 68 min | Horror

Japan's war against the zombie hordes continues, and the army of Ghoul-fighting girls struggles to survive when their leader is lost to insanity.

Director: Naoyuki Tomomatsu | Stars: Yui Aikawa, Asami, Iona, Saya Kobayashi

Votes: 489

32. Cult (2013)

84 min | Horror

Follows 3 actresses who play themselves as they appear on a paranormal television show to investigate the exorcism of the Kaneda family.

Director: Kôji Shiraishi | Stars: Yû Abiru, Mayuko Iwasa, Sayuri Oyamada, Mari Iriki

Votes: 977

33. Satan's Slave (1980)

R | 96 min | Horror

After the death of his wife, a businessman and his two kids are plagued by visions of ghosts and demons, and soon, people around them start to die, which all started after the arrival of their new and mysterious housekeeper.

Director: Sisworo Gautama Putra | Stars: Ruth Pelupessi, W.D. Mochtar, Fachrul Rozy, Simon Cader

Votes: 1,072

34. 3 Extremes II (2002)

R | 140 min | Horror, Mystery

An anthology consisting of three horror shorts from different Asian directors: Memories by Kim Jee-woon, The Wheel by Nonzee Nimibutr, and Going Home by Peter Chan.

Directors: Peter Ho-Sun Chan, Jee-woon Kim, Nonzee Nimibutr | Stars: Leon Lai, Kim Hye-su, Jeong Bo-seok, Suwinit Panjamawat

Votes: 3,919

35. Sweet Home (1989)

Not Rated | 100 min | Horror

A TV production crew are making a documentary about the infamous painter Mamiya Ichiro. When they start filming at his old home, they come under attack from the ghost of the painter's wife.

Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Stars: Nobuko Miyamoto, Shingo Yamashiro, Nokko, Fukumi Kuroda

Votes: 1,120

36. Sadako (2019)

99 min | Horror

A group of people must find out how to stop the newborn deadly curse, which has born and gone viral after a Youtuber accidentally captured a vengeful ghost on camera.

Director: Hideo Nakata | Stars: Elaiza Ikeda, Takashi Tsukamoto, Hiroya Shimizu, Himeka Himejima

Votes: 1,083

37. Bloody Muscle Body Builder in Hell (1995)

62 min | Horror

Trapped inside a haunted house, a body builder must save himself from a gruesome ghost hell-bent on revenge.

Director: Shinichi Fukazawa | Stars: Shinichi Fukazawa, Masaaki Kai, Masahiro Kai, Aki Tama Mai

Votes: 1,015

38. The Housemaid (2016)

Not Rated | 105 min | Horror, Romance

When an orphaned Vietnamese girl is hired to be a housemaid at a haunted rubber plantation in 1953 French Indochina, she unexpectedly falls in love with the French landowner and awakens the... See full summary »

Director: Derek Nguyen | Stars: Nhung Kate, Jean-Michel Richaud, Kim Xuan, Svitlana Kovalenko

Votes: 899

39. Corpse Prison: Part One (2017)

75 min | Horror

For 50 years no girls were born in a small village deep in the mountains. A professor, his assistant and his female students from university arrive in this isolated village for field work. Will they make it back?

Director: Hideo Jôjô | Stars: Moemi Katayama, Anna Tachibana, Shin'ichi Wagô, Nagomi

Votes: 236

40. Teketeke (2009)

70 min | Horror

A young girl learns of the urban legend of Teke Teke after her friend is killed in a gruesome way. The legend tells of a female ghost that has no legs. When she visits the spot where her friend died she comes into contact with it .

Director: Kôji Shiraishi | Stars: Yûko Ôshima, Mami Yamasaki, Mai Nishida, Yamamoto Kazuyoshi

Votes: 660

41. Exte: Hair Extensions (2007)

R | 108 min | Comedy, Horror

About hair extensions that attack the women that wear them.

Director: Sion Sono | Stars: Chiaki Kuriyama, Megumi Satô, Tsugumi, Eri Machimoto

Votes: 3,355

42. Retribution (2006)

R | 104 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

An experienced police detective has to investigate the murder of an unknown woman dressed in a scarlet dress.

Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Stars: Koji Yakusho, Manami Konishi, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Hiroyuki Hirayama

Votes: 3,266

43. Dr. Lamb (1992)

Not Rated | 89 min | Crime, Thriller

An abnormal taxi driver lusts for blood every rainy night, and several young women are killed as a result.

Directors: Danny Lee, Billy Hin-Shing Tang | Stars: Danny Lee, Simon Yam, Kent Cheng, Pik Yu Chung

Votes: 939

44. The Anchor (2022)

111 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Se-Ra is a famous anchor on a broadcasting station. Five minutes before her news broadcast is to go live, she receives a phone call. The caller, Mi-So, tells Se-Ra: "I am going to be killed by someone. Please cover the story of my death."

Director: Ji-Yeon Jung | Stars: Chun Woo-hee, Shin Ha-kyun, Lee Hye-yeong, Cha Rae-hyung

Votes: 634

45. Reincarnation (2005)

R | 96 min | Horror, Mystery

A Japanese actress begins having strange visions and experiences after landing a role in a horror film about a real-life murder spree that took place over forty years ago.

Director: Takashi Shimizu | Stars: Yûka, Karina, Kippei Shîna, Tetta Sugimoto

Votes: 6,767

46. It Comes (I) (2018)

135 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

One day, a visitor leaves Hideki a memo of his unborn daughter's name "Chisa". Two years later, Hideki's house is attacked by a sinister presence. To protect his family, Hideki asks for help to perform a ritual to break an unknown spell.

Director: Tetsuya Nakashima | Stars: Jun'ichi Okada, Nana Komatsu, Satoshi Tsumabuki, Haru Kuroki

Votes: 1,400

47. Ju-on: The Curse 2 (2000)

Not Rated | 76 min | Horror, Mystery

On his request, the sensitive sister of a real estate agent visits a house he intends to sell, only to cross paths with its resident curse.

Director: Takashi Shimizu | Stars: Yûrei Yanagi, Takako Fuji, Takashi Matsuyama, Ryôta Koyama

Votes: 4,068

48. School-Live! (2015– )

TV-14 | 25 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama

A young girl pretends to live a normal school life with her friends, unable to perceive what is truly happening around her.

Stars: Inori Minase, Ari Ozawa, Mao Ichimichi, Rie Takahashi

Votes: 1,094

49. Shikiyoku emaki: Sennen no kyôren (2015)

TV-MA | 70 min | Drama, Horror

A university professor and the members of his circle delve into a mysterious and lascivious world to uncover the legend of a tragic love ghost depicted on an Edo-era scroll in this sensual drama of ghost stories.

Director: Tetsuya Takehora | Stars: Beni Itô, Riri Kuribayashi, Misa Wada, Riri Kôda

50. The Vampire Doll (1970)

Not Rated | 85 min | Horror

Keiko and her friend are trying to find her missing brother after he disappeared visiting his girlfriend Yuko.

Director: Michio Yamamoto | Stars: Kayo Matsuo, Akira Nakao, Yukiko Kobayashi, Yôko Minakaze

Votes: 1,346